Lamentations 3:42
We haue ben dissemblers and haue offended, wylt thou therefore not be intreated?
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
In Context
41Let vs lift our heartes with our handes vnto the Lorde that is in heauen.
43Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slayne vs without any fauour.
Cross References
Lamentations 1:18The Lorde is righteous, for I haue prouoked his countenaunce vnto anger, O take heede all ye people and consider my heauinesse, my maydens and my young men are led away into captiuitie.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:38-42
The Duties of the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord . 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the foregoing verses , and may taste the… Read the whole commentary →